Mary Roberson Wiygul – South Panola High School – Class of 1989 – Batesville, Mississippi My first-grade classmates and I were the state’s first students born into a […]
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There Were Moments When I Could Hardly Breathe
Rita Watts Boone-Crystal Springs Attendance Center-Class of 1970-Crystal Springs, Mississippi I didn’t think much about the day in 1970 when I took my senior photos at Crystal Springs […]
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We Envied Private School Students. Why Weren’t We Taught Their History?
Skylar Smith-Northwest Rankin High School- Class of 2021-Flowood, Mississippi Growing up in central Mississippi as a public school student, I constantly heard about the army of private schools […]
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I Offered My Best to a System Not Meant For All the Others I Am
Katrina Byrd-Lanier High School-Class of 1990-Jackson,Mississippi “She can’t even see the ball,” said the kickball team captain on Holy Ghost Elementary School playground. The sun beat down on […]
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I Never Saw the System
Ellen Morris Prewitt-Myers Park High School-Class of 1975-Charlotte, North Carolina In the fall of 1969 when the United States Supreme Court thundered its Alexander v. Holmes “Now, dammit!” […]
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We Weren’t Represented As Our White Peers Were
Brittany Wilson-Jackson Preparatory School-Class of 2020-Jackson, MS Jackson Prep’s history as a 1970 breakaway all-white private school at the time of public school integration wasn’t any secret to […]
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Treacherous Water…Still
Peter Alford-Greenwood High School-Class of 1971-Greenwood,MS My brother Tim Alford wrote about the legacy of jazz great Mulgrew Miller and the positive effect he had on our desegregation […]
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The Point? There Was None
Catherine Bigger, Ph.D. –Magnolia Academy–Class of 1983 -Jackson, Mississippi The culminating moment from my twelve years of schooling at white Citizens’ Council School Number 6 (later Magnolia Academy) […]
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Mulgrew Miller Saw Us Through
Timothy J. Alford –Greenwood High School–Class of 1974 -Greenwood, Mississippi The Yazoo River splits Greenwood, Mississippi into North and South Greenwood. That’s more than a geographic fact. […]
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There’s Common Ground in the Hot Cheetos
Mark Davis –Band teacher in Mississippi and Tennessee public schools 1982-1985, 1987-1989 and 1991 until present–Band teacher at Starkville Academy 1989-1991 You learn along with your students if […]